Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Hope, Bartholomew County, 19 May 1892 — Page 2

J NEIGHBORLY CALL , _r's Magazine (February). 0 Mrs. Babcock patted softly and heavily across the little entry, and opened Mrs. Field's doors. She pressed the old brass latch with a slight showof ceremonious hesitancy, but she never thought of knocking. There was no one in the room, which bad a clean and sparse air. The chairs all stood back against the walls, and left in the centre a wide extent of faded carpet, full of shadowy gray scrolls. Mrs Babcock stood for a moment staring in and listening. There was a faint sound of a voice seemingly from a room beyond. She called softly, “Mis’ Field!” There was no response. She advanced then resolutely over the stretch of carpet toward the bedroom door. She opened it, then gave a little embarrassed grunt, and began backing away. Mrs. Field was in there kneeling beside the bed. praying. She started and looked up at Mrs. Babcock with a kind of solemn abasheduess, her Jong face flushed. Then she got up. “Good-afternoon,” said she. “Good-afternoon,” returned Mrs. Babcock. She tried to smile and recover her equanimity. “Fvo been into Mandy Pratt’s,” she went on, “an’ I thought I’d jest look in hers a minute before I went home, but I wouldn t have come in so if I’d known you was —busy.” “Come out in the other room an’ sit down,” said Mrs. Field. Mrs. Babcock’s agitated bulk followed her over the gray carpet, and settled into the rocking chair at one of the front windows. Mrs. Field seated herself at the other. “It’s been a pleasant day, ’ain’t it?” said she. “Real pleasant. I told Mr. Babcock this noon that I was goin’ to git out somewheres this afternoon come what would. I’ve been ccoped up all the spring house cleanin’, an’ now I’m goin’ to git out, I dun’no when anywhere. I ’ain’t been sance Christmas that I —I ’ain’t been ‘ n to set down <£».,y; an’ I’ve been .neapin' to run in'*:-., see you all winter, Mis’Field.” All the trace of confusion now left in Mrs. Babcock’s manner was a weak volubility. “Tt’s about all anybody can do to jeir housework, if they do it !>ugh,” returned Mrs. Field. “I so you’ve been takiu’ up car- - ;th’, -ook up every carpet in the house. I do every year. Some folks don’t, but I can’t stau’ it. I’m afraid of moths too. I s’pose you’ve got your cleanin’ all done?” “Yes, I’ve got it about done.” “Well I shouldn’t think you could do so much, Mis’ Field, with your hands.” Mrs. Field’s hands lay in her lap, yellow and heavily corrugated, the finger-joints in great knots, which looked as if they had been tied in the bone. Mrs. Babcock eyed them pitilessly. “B are they now?” she inquired. “Seeil&to ms they look worse than they used to.” Mrs. Field regarded her hands with a staid, melancholy air. “Well 1 dun’no’.” “Seems to me they look worse. How’s Lois, Mis’ Field?” “She’s pretty well, I guess. I dun’no’ why she ain’t. “Somebody was savin’ the other day that she looked dreadfully.” Mrs. Field had heretofore held herself with a certain slow dignity. Now her manner suddenly changed and she spoke fast. “I dun’no’ what folks mean talkin' so,” said she. “Lois ain’t been lookin’ very well, as I know of, lately; but it’s the spring of the year, an' she’s always apt to feel it,” i “Mebbe that is it,” replied the other, with a doubtful reflection. “Let mo see, you called it consumption that ailed your sister, didn’t you, Mis’ Field?” i “I s’pose it was,” Mrs. Babcock stared with cool reflection at the other woman’s long, pale face, with its high cheek-bones and deep-set eves and wide, drooping mouth. 6he was deliberating whether or not to ask for soma information that she wanted. “Speakin’ of your sister,” said she, finally, with a casual air, “her husband’s father is livin’, ain’t he?” “He was the last I knew.” “I s'pose he’s worth considerable property?” . “Yes, I s’pose he is.” > “Well, I want to know. Somebody was speakiu’ about it the other day, an’ they said they thought he did, an’ I told ’em I didn’t believe It- He never helped your sister’s husband any, did he?" Mrs. Field did not reply for a moment. Mrs. Babcock was leaning forward and smiling ingratiatingly, with keen eyes upon her face. “I dun’uo’ as he’ did. But I guess v, ward never expected he would, ch,” said she. ‘Well, I told ’em I didn’t believe did- I declare! it seemed pretty didn’t it?” un’no’. I thought of it some ng when Edward was siok.t

“I declare, I should have thought you'd wrote to him about it.” Mrs. Field said nothing. “Didn’t you ever?” Mrs. Babcock asked, “Well, yes; I wrote once when he was first taken sick.” “An’ ho didn’t take any notice of it?” Mrs. Field shook her head. “He’s a regular old skinflint; ain’t he?” said Mrs. Babcock. “I guess he’s a pretty set kind of a man." “Set! I should call it more’n set. Now, Miss Field, I’d really like to know something. I ain’t curious, but I've heard so many stories about it that I’d really like to know the truth of it once. Somebody was speakin’ about it the other day, and it don’t seem right for stories to be goin’ the rounds when there ain’t no truth in ’em. Miss Field, what was it set Edward Maxwell's father agi’n him?” Mrs. Babcock’s voice sank to a whisper; she leaned forward and gazed at Mrs. Field with crafty sweetness. Mrs. Field looked out of the window. “Well, I s’pose it was some trouble about money matters.” “Money matters?’’ “Yes, I s'pose so." “Mis’ Field, what did he do?” Mrs. Field did not reply. She looked out of- the window at the green banks in front, Her face was inscrutable. Mrs. Babcock drew herself up. “Course I don’t want you to tell me nothin’ you don’t want to,” said she, with injured dignity. “I ain’t pry in’ into things that folks don’t want me to know about: it wan’t never my way. Ail is, I thought I'd like to know the truth of it, whether there was anything in them stories or not. ” Q“Oh, I’d jest as soon tell you,” rejoined Mrs. Field, quietly. “I was jest a thinkiu’. As near as I can tell you, Mis’ Babcock, Edward’s father he let him have some rioney, and Edward he speculated with it on something contrary to his advice, an’ lost, it, an’ that made the trouble.” “Was that all?” asked Mrs. Babcock, with a disappointed air. “Yes, I s'pose it was.” “I want to know!” Mrs. Babcock leaned back with a sigh. Well, there’s another thing,” she sard presently. “Somebody was sayin’ the other day that you thought Esther caught the consumption from her husband. I wanted to know if vou did.” Mrs. Field’s face twitched. “Well," she replied, “I dunno. I’ve heard consumption was catchin’, and she Was right over him the whole time.” “Well, I don’t know. I ’ain’t never been able to take much stock in catchin’ consumption. There was Mis’ Say night an’ day with Susan for ten years, an’ she’s jest as well as anybody. I should be afraid ’twas a good deal likelier to be in your family. Does Lois cough?” “None to speak of.” “Well, there's more kinds of consumption than one.” Mrs. Babcock made quite a long call. She shook Mrs. Field's hand warmly at parting. “I want to know, does Lois like honey?” said she. . “Yes, she’s real fond of it.” “Well, I’m goin’ to send her over a dish of it. Ours was uncommon nice this year. It’s real good for a cough,” On her way home Mrs. Babcock met Lois Field coming from school attended by a little flock of children. Mrs. Babcock stopped, and looked sharply at her small, delicately pretty face, with its pointed chin and deep set blue eyes. “flow are you feelin’ to night, Lois?” she inquired, in a tone of forcible commiseration. “I’m pretty well, thank you,” said Lois. “Seems to me you’re lookin’ pretty slim. You’d ought to take a little vacation.” Mrs. Babcock surveyed her with a kind of pugnacious pity. Lois stood quite erect in the midst of the children. “I don’t think I need any vacation,” said she, smiling constrainedly. She pushed gently past Mrs. Babcock, with the children at her heels. “You’d better take a little one,” Mrs. Babcock called after her. Lois kept on as if she did not hear. Her face was flushed, and her head seemed full of beating pulses. One of the children, a thin little girl in a blue dress, turned around and grimaced at Mrs. Babcock; another pulled Lois’s dress. “Teacher, Jenny Whitcomb is raakin’ faces at Mis’ Babcock,” she drawled. “Jenny!” said Lois, sharply; and the little girl turned with a scared, nervous giggle. “You mustn’t ever do such a thing as that again,” said Lois, She reached down and took the child’s little restive hand and led her along. A man in Liberty, Me., who is five feet seven inches in height, has a beard six feet three inches in length that is tied up in a k;ind of queue. No one notices its length except when, to startle strangers, he shakes out the reefs and lets his great beard fall upon the ground. The beard began to grow twelve years ago.

HARRISON’S STRENGTH. Four Hundred and Sixteen Instructed for Him. Dll Nomination Almost Assored on the First Ballot—Whence Come the Delegates. Tho friends of President Harrison have been figuring, and furnish the following list of absolutely Instructed delegates: Alabama 23 Florida 8 California 2 Indiana , 30 Georgia — Kentucky 20 Illinois 44 Maryland 10 Kansas 8 Minnesota 2 Louisiana 10 Missouri 30 Michigan 4 New York 26 Mississippi 18 Ohio 6 Nebraska 16 South Carolina 18 North Carolina... 12 Tennessee 20 Pennsylvania.... 2 Virginia 14 South Dakota.... 8 Wisconsin 10 Texas 30 West Virginia.... 12 Total Instructed Arkansas..., 10)delegates 416 Those with the many delegates who, though not instructed, will vote for him, makes his ranomination almost a certainty. It is stated that these figures exclude every delegate who has not specific instructions from district or State to vote for renomination from the very beginning of the proceedings in the national convention. For instance, the four delegates from districts in Illinois which did not adopt resolutions of Instructions are left out of the calculations, although it Is held that instructions by the State convention bind the delegates from districts which dtd not instruct. For the same reason four delegates are dropped in Missouri, although Itls reported that the Missouri delegation as a whole will act under State InstrupUpne. It is claimed that twothirds of the nine hundred delegates will vote for MY. Harrison on the first ballot. WASHINGTON. It is stated on the authority of Secretary Blaine that Mr, Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, and Hojj. John Morgan, United States Senator from Alabama, have been selected by the President as arbitrators on the part of the United States in the Bering sea arbitration. England will now appoint two arbitrators, and there are three others to be appointed, one by the King of Sweden, one by the President of the Republic of France and one by the King of Italy, making seven arbitrators in all. Hon. E, J. Phelps, late United States minister to England, has been selected as chief counsel in behalf of the United States before the arbitration commission. ! A bill to exclnde political influence from I the 61,CO.) fourth-class postofflces in the I country was agreed upon at the meeting | of the House committee on civil service reform on the 12th. The bill provides for the division of the country Into postal districts, and that dates for open competition shall be announced by postoffice inspectors who shall recommend the best man to the Postmaster General afterreceiving theapplications and examining the facts. Congressmen and other federal officials aro forbidden to make recommendations, otto interfere in any way withappoinlmenls under the bill, and appointments or removals upon political grounds are prohibited. The House committee on Indian affairs has made a favorable report upon Representative Martin’s bill to reimburse Hie tho Miami Indians of Indiana for money Improperly withheld from them. The committe amended the bill by making it provide that the Secretary of the Interior shall pay the 303 persons enlisted on the corrected list under tho treaty of June? 1854, and the increase of their families tho sum of $48,073 instead of $94,000, the former sum being the amount with the Interest thereon improperly paid out of money duo theMiamis over then-protest to Indians not entitled to participate therein, and in violation of tho treaty of 1854. The Senate committee on military affairs has made an adverse report on the bill Introduced by Senator Sherman to prevent the desecration of the American flag by making it a misdemeanor to print, paint or affix to the national Hag any business advertisement, etc, The House committee on public buildings and grounds Thursday ordered a favorable report on buildings to be erected at Steubenville, O., McKeesport, Pa., Allentown, Pa., Columbus, Ind,, and Hoboken. N. J. Whitelaw Reid’s extradition treaty between France and the United States was rejected by the Senate Wednesday in executive session after severe criticism and defense. Senator Dawes has introduced a bill to make October 12 next—the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America—a national holiday. It is affirmed that the moderate silver men in Congress are well pleased with the progress made toward bringing about the international monetary conference. Italy and Austria have signified their acceptance of the invitation to participate in an international monetaryoconference. The refreshing news is given out that Congress will adjourn about the middled July.

FOURTHOUSAND MUMMIES. The Remarkable Spectacle Pre- i sented on a Peruvian Battle field. The bark Edwin Reed, at Phlladel- ; phia, recently discharged a cargo of I nitrate of soda brought from Pisagua, 1 Peru, which was gathered from the , battle field of Tarapaca, where the , bodies of 4,000 Peruvian soldiers have < lain unburied for ten years. The < battle was fought between tho Peruvi- * ana and Chilians on November 17, 1789, and the heavy losses sustained by the Peruvians forced them to retreat, leaving their dead lying on the field. The uitrate of soda was gathered among the corpses, loaded on the backs of mules and carried down to the port of Pisagua, where it was transferred on lighters to the bark. It will be manufactured into gunpowder. The bodies of the soldiers have turned into mummies, strange as it may seem, after lying on the desert plain ail these years. In any other country they would have been reduced to skeletons in a short time between the ravages of wild beasts and the ex- , posure to the elements. For over 199 1 miles on either side of the battlefield not a blade of grass can be seen, owing - to the nature of the soil The absence 1 of grass and water accounts for the , absence of Wild beasts. Tbeearthisso filled with nitrate of soda that this, in connection with the hot, dry atmos- j phere, has preserved the bodies of the | men and horses from decay. , The scene Is a strange one, indeed, ] and when the officers and some of the ( passengers of the baric visited the place ] they were astonished. The fumes 1 arising from the nitrate of soda have 1 prevented the uniforms of the soldiers 1 from becoming rotten and dropping f off. On a bright moonlight night the * scene is said to suggest the idea that the < battle had only been fought a few * days. The Peruvian government has j' not made any effort to bury the dead. ? The country is so poor since its de- : feat by Chili that it is as much as it can 1 do to pay the tributes levied by Chili. 1 The demand for nitrate for use in ■ the manufacture of gunpowder has bo- , come so great, though there is no im- j mediate sign of war anywhere, that , thousands of tons of the article are , brought to this country annually from , Peru by a syndicate of which ex-Mayor ] Grace, of New York, is the head. Peru pays a tax to Chili on every ton of I nitrate shipped from that country.— j Philadelphia Record. The French. They seem to me to bo people made 1 exactly for enjoying themselves, says 1 Buffalo Bill, writing of the French. 1 ( do not mean to say that they have no i valor, or military courage, or energy; 1 all the world knows the reverse is true in war matters, and the energy of the country is wonderfully proved by the , recent exposition. On the other hand i do not think that they overwork, i They appear to take their pleasure as ; they go along, and are content with moderate fortunes and incomes. It is a great pity that the governments of Europe cannot get on peaceably to- ■ gother, for it it was not for the necessity of keeping up a standing army I believe the French would be the hap- : piest people in the world. Their manner of life is a perfect indication of their general character, ; and though 1 cannot help admiring it, j I must say that it would not do for me, j and I think most Americans would como to the samo conclusion. Coffee and rolls at 9 o’clock in the morning, breakfast at noon, coffee in the middle of the afternoon and dinner in the evening does not give the rapid American time enough for his work. The French, however, find sufficient time to do what they wish to and manage to get more fun out of life than we do. A Very Bad Cold When you’re wheezing and sneezing And feel just like freezing; And your eyes keep a running, In a manner most stunning; Your cough gets a showing, And your nose gets a blowing; And your voice is pitched low, [ And sounds full of woe; Polks give intimation, And much information, For full often you’re told; “ Why, you’ve got a bad cold!" Still Boom for Hare. There is no immediate danger of the United States becoming overcrowded, for Joseph Nimmo, Jr., shows in Frank Leslie's paper that since independence was achieved the United States government has been the largest owner of arable land on the earth. The total area of tho “public domain,” sold and unsold, amounts to 1,849,072,587 acres and constitutes 72 per cent of the total area of the United States, including Alaska About 700,000,000 acres have been sold and donated, and about 1,160,000,000 acres remain unsold. As the area of Alaska is 369,630,000 acres, the area unsold exclusive of that territory is about 780,000,000 acres. Brought Him to time. “You are not going to stay downtown late to-night, are you, John?” “Not very late, Maria. I have to help put a man through the third degree at lodge, FI! come straight home as soon as it is over." (Kindly, but firmly) — “If you can i repeat the password, ‘Six slim slick | saplings,’ distinctly when you come home from the lodge, John, the out-1 side guardian will admit you, and i( 1 you can’t you needn’t ring any alarm at the outer door. You’ll stay on the outside all night, my dear.” [John came home early.]—Chicago Tribune.

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